Isabel, the prime suspect in the murder of Jee last October, told members of the Senate Committee on Public Order and Dangerous Drugs that Supt. Rafael Dumlao, head of an anti-illegal drugs unit in Camp Crame, was behind the operation.
During the Senate inquiry into the kidnap-slay case of Jee involving members of the Philippine National Police (PNP), Marissa Morquicho, the maid of the Korean businessman, positively identified Santa Isabel as part of the the group of men who entered her employer’s house in Angeles City, Pampanga, on October 18.
She also identified Santa Isabel in the closed-circuit television (CCTV) footage withdrawing money allegedly using Jee’s ATM card. “The one who entered the house was SPO3 Ricky Santa Isabel,“ Morquicho told senators.
Morquicho was abducted by Santa Isabel’s group along with her employer who was accused by the suspects of being involved in illegal drug operations in the country.
According to Morquicho, she heard the suspects asking her employer about his alleged drug operation and forcing him to identify his supplier while on their way to Metro Manila.
She said she also witnessed Santa Isabel talking to a certain “boss” on the phone about their failure to find drugs on Jee.
The house help recalled that the suspects were beating up her employer while they were travelling, but she did not witness the killing because she was ordered to transfer to another vehicle and was eventually released in Cubao, Quezon City.
She said she was given P1,000 and was told to go home.
Apart from the positive identification of the house help, Santa Isabel’s vehicle was also seen entering the subdivision where the victim was residing, several times before the abduction.
There was also a CCTV footage showing Santa Isabel and another individual, identified only as “Jerry,” withdrawing from an ATM machine in Greenhills, San Juan. The footage was obtained by the PNP-Anti-Kidnapping Group headed by Sr. Supt. Glenn Dumlao.